Oral History, Health and Welfare

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-86825-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. It includes discussion on:

* the end of the workhouse
* professional education and training of midwives
* HIV and Aids
* birth control
* the role of the community pharmacist
* pioneers of geriatric medicine
* oral history and the history of learning disability.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bornat, Joanna

Perks, Robert

Thompson, Paul

Walmsley, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Introduction, 1 Family and vocation: career choice and the life histories of general practitioners, 2 The role of the community pharmacist in health and welfare 1911–1986, 3 Recollections of the pioneers of the geriatric medicine specialty, 4 The last years of the workhouse, 1930–1965, 5 The contribution of professional education and training to becoming a midwife, 1938–1951, Recollections of life ‘on the district’ in Scotland, 1940–1970, 7 Institutional abuse: memories of a ‘special’ school for visually impaired girls—a personal account, 8 Oral history and the history of learning disability, 9 The recipients’ view of welfare, 10 HIV and Aids testimonies in the 1990s, 11 The delivery of birth control advice in South Wales between the wars, 12 Midwives as ‘mid-husbands’? Midwives and fathers, 13 The modern hospice movement: ‘bright lights sparkling’ or ‘a bit of heaven for a few’?, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Bornat, Robert Perks, Paul Thompson, Jan Warmsley